This course will be useful to anyone who wants to learn the R programming language, particularly to leverage it for data analysis and data science tasks. You will begin by setting up an R development environment and executing simple code. Then, you'll process atomic data types like characters, numbers, and logical. You'll also process data structures like vectors, factors, and data frames.
R Programming: Setup and Data Processing
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R Programming: Setup and Data Processing
This course is part of R Programming for Data Science Specialization
Instructor: Bill Rosenthal
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In this course, you will set up an R development environment, execute simple code, and perform operations on atomic data types and data structures.
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There are 4 modules in this course
Before you can start developing data science projects in R, you must set up a system with the necessary tools. Then you can create a new programming project and start writing and testing your code.
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Now that you have some experience with writing code in R, you can take a deeper dive into the characteristics of the language itself. Like all languages, R categorizes data in different ways. You'll need to know how to process each data type in order to successfully work with your data.
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In the previous lesson, you worked with R's atomic data types. These atomic types are components of larger objects that structure data in more complex, yet practical forms. In this lesson, you'll learn how to process the main data structures that R supports.
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You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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